Cookie Policy

We, Luxury Worldwide Collection, a trading division of E.F.R Travel Ltd, understand and respect the importance of your privacy and we are committed to safeguarding your personal information. Please read this Cookies Policy in conjunction with our Privacy Policy.

Information about our use of cookies

Our website (elegantgolfresorts.com) uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. By continuing to browse the site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

What are Cookies?

A cookie is a text-only string of information that a website transfers to the cookie file of the browser on your computer’s hard disk so that the website can remember who you are. Cookies will typically contain the name of the domain from which the cookie has come, the “lifetime” of the cookie, and a value, usually a randomly generated unique number. Two types of cookies are used on this web site – session cookies, which are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave the site, and persistent cookies, which remain in the cookie file of your browser for much longer (though how long will depend on the lifetime of the specific cookie).

Cookies allow us to obtain information regarding users of our site which essentially helps us to provide you with a better user experience and tailor our services to your individual needs. We may collect information such as your IP address, online activity, web browser details and online activity. We will not however collect or store any of your passwords or other highly sensitive data. By using our website with your browser settings adjusted to accept all cookies, we will take this to mean that you want to use our products and services, and that you consent to our use of cookies and other technologies as described in this Policy.

The Cookies that we use

We use the following cookies:

Strictly necessary cookies are cookies that are required for the operation of our website. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website, use a shopping cart or make use of e-billing services.

Analytical/performance cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Functionality cookies are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).

Targeting cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:

Cookie Provider

Cookie Name

Cookie Purpose

Cookie Type

Contains Personal Data?

Duration of the Cookie

Google

_ga

Used to distinguish users

Analytical/Performance

No

2 Years

Google

_gid

Used to distinguish users

Analytical/Performance

No

1 Day

Google

_gat

Used to throttle request rate. If Google Analytics is deployed via Google Tag Manager, this cookie will be named _dc_gtm_<property-id>

Analytical/Performance

No

1 Minute

Google

gwcc

Used to allow Google to track any call conversions on mobile devices. For example, clicking a phone number on a webpage to dial from a mobile device.

Analytical/Performance

No

3 Months

LiveChat

_lc_mcid

Unclassified

Functionality

No

3 Years

LiveChat

_lc_mcst

Unclassified

Functionality

No

3 Years

LiveChat

_lc_sso*

Unclassified

Functionality

No

3 Years

LiveChat

lc_window_state

Checks/stores the open/closed state of the LiveChat window

Functionality

No

End of Browser Session

LiveChat

_livechat

Used to hide the user’s personal customisation of LiveChat

Functionality

No

3 Years

LiveChat

main_window_timestamp_0

Synchronises the communication between opened chat tabs

Functionality

No

End of Browser Session

LiveChat

main_window_timestamp

Synchronises the communication between opened chat tabs

Functionality

No

End of Browser Session

LiveChat

_lc_vv

Unclassified

Functionality

No

End of Browser Session

LiveChat

_livechat_lastvisit

Stores when the user last used LiveChat

Functionality

No

3 Years

LiveChat

notification[status_ping]

Unclassified

Functionality

No

End of Browser Session

LiveChat

3rdparty

Unclassified

Functionality

No

End of Browser Session

LiveChat

message_text

Unclassified

Functionality

No

End of Browser Session

LiveChat

recent_window

Unclassified

Functionality

No

End of Browser Session

LWC

cookieconsent_status

Used to hide cookie popup upon consent

Functionality

No

1 Year

Facebook

fr

Used to allow products to be shared via Facebook

Targeting

No

3 Months

LWC

ulp-onexit*

Used to track exit pop submissions

Targeting

No

1 Month

Microsoft

MUID

This cookie is widely used by Microsoft as a unique user identifier. It can be set by embedded Microsoft scripts

Targeting

No

1 Month

Microsoft

_uetsid

Microsoft Bing Ads Universal Event Tracking (UET) tracking cookie

Targeting

No

1 Day

Google

test_cookie

The DoubleClick cookie serves relevant ads to potential customers and gathers information about how or if you are interacting with these ads

Targeting

No

1 Day

LWC

PHPSESSID

This is a general purpose identifier used to maintain user session variables

Strictly Necessary

No

End of Browser Session

LWC

has_js

Drupal uses this cookie to indicate whether or not the visitors browser has JavaScript enabled

Strictly Necessary

No

End of Browser Session

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Objecting to Cookies

Most browsers have options that allow the visitor to control whether the browser will accept cookies, reject cookies, or notify the visitor each time a cookie is sent. You may elect to reject or block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

Lifetime of Cookies Except for essential cookies, all cookies will expire after the period set out in the table above.

Further information To find out more information about cookies, please visit Wikipedia.